Microsoft. The company everyone took for granted but whose stock performance this year was steady, consistent, and even surpassed Apple as the most valuable US company.

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by CuriosityBout Microsoft, for 3 decades, has stayed in the top 10 most valuable companies. Let’s put that in perspective. In 2000, GE was the most valuable company, and today it’s desperate. Sears, same thing. And while Apple and Amazon surpassed $1 trillion market cap before cratering recently, Microsoft stock continually stays strong. And Google … Read more

As Goes GE? If General Electric Can’t Avoid a Debt Downgrade to Junk, Look Out Below

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via Yahoo: General Electric Company has watched its share price crater more than 56 percent across 2018. Investors are taking fright at its huge debt pile. The wider U.S corporate debt market has stretched to more than $9 trillion. How General Electric (GE) resolves its debt problem will be “critical” to the wider Investment Grade … Read more

Bloomberg: “Grim Stock Signals Piling Up as Wall Street Mulls Recession Odds”; WSJ: “The U.S. Housing Boom Is Coming to an End”

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Bloomberg: Grim Stock Signals Piling Up as Wall Street Mulls Recession Odds Nine turbulent weeks and a correction in U.S. stocks have left analysts with a thorny question. What’s the market saying about the economy? And while few see incontrovertible signs investors are bracing for a recession, it’s a word that’s been coming up more … Read more

Thank God For 2:00 A.M.!

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by Chris Who knows where global equities would be without the mysterious 2:00 a.m. futures buyer that shows up? Sure, we were due for a bounce, I’d just be a lot less suspicious if these bounces didn’t have a habit of showing up at 2:00 a.m. Somebody is running that game, and has been for … Read more

More Americans Choosing To Keep Citizenship Under Trump Than Obama

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp3CwET9qQA Ben Marquis for the Conservative Tribune reports, By listening to the liberal media, one would assume that the election of President Donald Trump transformed the United States of America into an authoritarian and dictatorial hellhole, one that all good and morally upstanding people would want to flee from. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/ame…    

The Politics of Debt-Serfs and Tax Donkeys: Our Only Choice Is the Least Bad Option

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by Charles Hugh-Smith The reality is there is no avenue left for advocacy, grievances or redress in a system dominated by global corporations and self-serving political insiders. What’s striking about the protests in Paris against higher fuel taxes is the universality of the protesters’ expressions of being fed up with a status quo that no … Read more

Visualizing Where Obamacare Rates Are Exploding

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by howmuch Open enrollment for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, will last until December 15, 2018. Unless you get insurance through your employer, you might be in for a surprise. We crunched some numbers from a report by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to injecting facts into the … Read more

Famous Asset Bubbles within 9 Yrs of Peak

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Famous Asset Bubbles within 9 Yrs of Peak Bitcoin 2011-2017: 66xTulip Mania 1617-1622: 53xNasdaq 1991-1999: 13xOil 2001-2008: 7xSilver 2004-2013: 6xMiami Condo Mkt 1998-2007: 6xNikkei 1982-1990: 5xNasdaq 100: 2009-2017 5xUS Stocks Dow 1921-1929: 5x v @BearTrapsReport — Lawrence McDonald (@Convertbond) November 10, 2017 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1066950982565810176 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1066936867537526784

The four engines of job growth across four major sectors have stalled; jobless claims have risen across the board; Morgan Stanley sees 50%+ chance of an earnings recession next year.

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The four engines of job growth across four major sectors have stalled; jobless claims have risen across the board@DiMartinoBooth pic.twitter.com/VNdDnHyHTO — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) November 26, 2018 Morgan Stanley sees 50%+ chance of an earnings recession next year. (via @pattidomm) @CNBC pic.twitter.com/rA9gVbfP4T — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) November 26, 2018 “The bear market is mostly … Read more

Hedge fund redemptions could offset corp buybacks going into year end, but what if corporations and boards get spooked b/c of the October crash and decided to pull back on stock buybacks, too? Double hit to markets possible?

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Hedge fund redemptions could offset corp buybacks going into yearend, but what if corporations and boards get spooked b/c of the October crash and decided to pull back on stock buybacks, too? Double hit to markets possible?https://t.co/JlztchFOaI — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) November 26, 2018 cc: @neelkashkari @marydalyecon @RobSKaplan @ericrosengren where were Fed regulators when this was … Read more

Is FANG maxed out? The most promising technologies of the next decade (2020 and beyond) and which companies to invest in?

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by ceud During a bear market, tech and other growth companies are generally the ones that experience the biggest corrections in share prices due to poor fundamentals and high P/E ratios. However, it doesn’t change the fact that investing in general is always about future value. Obviously ‘future’ is subjective and will vary from person to … Read more

“Rs63,700 Per Tola”: Right Now, Gold Trades at Record Highs in Pakistan

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via tribune.com.pk: Gold prices in Pakistan shot up to a record high at Rs63,700 per tola (11.66 grams) on Friday as people turned to the precious yellow metal, which is considered a safe haven for investment, ahead of likely return of inflationary pressures in the country. Karachi Saraf and Jewellers Association Secretary Ghulam Hussain Deedar said … Read more

80% of Mortgage Refis Are Equity Cash Outs

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via yahoo: Rising mortgage rates are crushing much of the refinancing market. But Americans are still using refis to pull cash out of their homes. More than 80% of borrowers who refinanced in the third quarter chose the “cash out” option, withdrawing $14.6 billion in equity out of their homes, according to government-sponsored mortgage corporation Freddie … Read more

Same Old ECB, Same Old Draghi: Even After “Stimulus” Ends, There Will Still Be Stimulus

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via fxstreet: Below are some key highlights from the introductory statement delivered by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, at the ECON committee of the European Parliament, Brussels, 26 November 2018. The data that have become available since my last visit in September have been somewhat weaker than expected. Risks relating to protectionism, vulnerabilities in emerging markets and … Read more

JPMorgan: Just When Global Bond Supply Is Increasing, Demand Is Plummeting

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via zerohedge: One year ago, just as the Fed had started quantitative tightening, i.e., the shrinkage of its balance sheet, JPMorgan’s Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, author of the popular Flows and Liquidity newsletter predicted that the more than $1 trillion decline in G4 central bank bond purchases in 2018 relative to 2017 would be a key driver for the change in the … Read more

China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score has already banned 11 million flights and 4 million train trips by “undesirables.”

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via zerohedge: The “Beijing Further Optimization of the Business Environment Action Plan (2018-2020)” has just been distributed to all district committees, district governments, municipal party committees, local government ministries and commissions bureaus, various head offices, multiple people’s organizations, colleges, and universities. The new report details Beijing’s ambitious plan to control each of its 22 million citizens based on a system of social scoring that punishes … Read more

“Property is the biggest risk in China in the next 12 months, much greater than the US-China trade war”

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via scmp: Home prices have skyrocketed 325 per cent in the past two decades. OP Capital’s chief executive Oscar Choi said he’s “100 per cent sure” there’s a bubble in the housing market. Meanwhile, overbuilding has emerged as a concern. Local governments’ reliance on land sales for revenue has led to ghost cities – fully built but unoccupied. … Read more

List of Finance Free Courses

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Cumulative return for FAANG stocks in 2018

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by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsvCoreUcAA1AIE.jpg FANG got wrecked this year – so far. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google parent Alphabet plummeted during 2018, compounding weakness that has plagued the broader tech space. At least one of those names could have hit a bottom, according to Matt Maley, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. “The stock … Read more